ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Someone not only created a comment-spewing Reddit bot powered by OpenAI's GPT-3, it offered bizarre life advice

(2020/10/09)

Oblivious netizens chat with software for the past 10 days

BOFH: Rome, I have been thy soldier 40 years... give me a staff of honour for mine age

(2020/10/09)

Or, you know, just sign on this dotted line

Selling hardware on a pay-per-use or subscription model is a 'lie' created by marketing bods

(2020/10/09)

Capex to opex, capex to opex, capex to opex... Stop. 'It's just not what people really want'

From the Department of WCGW: An app-controlled polycarbonate lock with no manual override/physical key

(2020/10/09)

Did we mention where it goes? Plus: LinkedIn trolling and other lockdown fun

Email-spamming COVID profiteers deleted database with 'key evidence' when UK watchdog came knocking

(2020/10/09)

Fined £40k after probe. Plus: ICO wants your views on its future powers

EFF off: Privacy Badger disables by default anti-tracking safeguard that can be abused to track you online

(2020/10/09)

Google has a word with digital rights warriors

IT Marie Kondo asks: Does this noisy PC spark joy? Alas, no. So under the desk it goes

(2020/10/09)

Powerful computers need powerful fans, after all

The key role of storage in building a data-centric organisation

(2020/10/09)

Turning raw bits and bytes from information into money

A 73bn-kg, skyscraper-size chocolate creme egg spinning fast enough to eventually explode – it's asteroid Bennu

(2020/10/09)

And we're about to extract a sample from it

Welp, it is the season for silicon mega-mergers... AMD rumored to be in advanced talks to buy FPGA slinger Xilinx for $30bn+

(2020/10/09)

Let the chips fall where they may

Facebook's anti-trademark bot torpedoes .org website that just so happened to criticize Zuck's sucky ethics board

(2020/10/09)

What are the chances?

Want to set up a successful bug bounty? Make sure you write it for the flaw finders and not the lawyers

(2020/10/09)

Plus: Experts talk voting machine security, 'warming' of relations with infosec community

Third time's still the charm: AMD touts Zen-3-based Ryzen 5000 line, says it will 'deliver absolute leadership in x86'

(2020/10/08)

Cache me if you can, Intel

Hey, pull your nose out of BlackBerry's poor financials and pay attention to this all-singing security doodah

(2020/10/08)

Zero trust, zero touch, crypto-jacking – bung all the usual buzzwords in

Git your ass to the cloud! Gitpod hooks up with GitLab to take on GitHub Codespaces

(2020/10/08)

Gosh, that's a lot of Gits. But a viable alternative to Microsoft's stable

One would assume that they like to 'Moovit, Moovit'. Intel-owned transport app hitches ride on Huawei AppGallery

(2020/10/08)

Chinese bogeyman continues to seek stand-ins for Google's Android services

Do you wish you could deploy and scale Kubernetes natively and more easily? Well, maybe you can

(2020/10/08)

We'll show you how to access persistent data across any hybrid environment

The next time Microsoft 359 craps itself, at least it'll be easier to hunt down help

(2020/10/08)

Support and knowledge base articles consolidated into a single and search engine-friendly location

IBM to spin out Managed Infrastructure Services biz – yes, the one that was subject to all those redundancies

(2020/10/08)

And the name of this fresh public entity? World, say hello to... NewCo

K8s on a plane! US Air Force slaps Googly container tech on yet another war machine to 'run advanced ML algorithms'

(2020/10/08)

And if that's not Skynet enough for ya, Britten-Norman is working to make the BN-2 Islander fly autonomously

Ever feel like life was a game and you had the wrong instruction book?